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86 Biotechnological Approaches for Pest Management and Ecological Sustainability
FIGURE 4.1 Brown planthopper, Nilaparavata lugens damage in different rice cultivars.
• Oriental armyworm, Mythimna separata (Walker), in pearl millet (Sharma and
Sullivan, 2000).
• Tobacco budworm, Heliothis virescens (F.), cotton bollworm, Helicoverpa armigera
(Hubner), and leafhopper, Amrasca biguttula biguttula Ishida, in cotton (Hall et al.,
1980; Sharma and Agarwal, 1983a; Nanthagopal and Uthamasamy, 1989;
Sundramurthy and Chitra, 1992; Rao and Prasad, 1996; Wu, Cai, and Zhang, 1997;
Sharma, 2005; Sharma et al., 2005b).
• Mexican bean beetle, Epilachna varivestis Mulsant, in soybean (Kogan, 1982).
• Groundnut leaf miner, Aproaerema modicella DuV., aphids, Aphis craccivora Koch.,
jassids, Empoasca kerri Pruthi, H. zea, and tobacco caterpillar, Spodoptera litura (F.),
in groundnut (Beland and Hatchett, 1976; Wightman et al., 1990; Sharma,
Pampapathy, and Kumar, 2002).
• Legume pod borer, H. armigera, in chickpea (Figure 4.3) and pigeonpea (Srivastava
and Srivastava, 1990; Cowgill and Lateef, 1996; Shanower, Yoshida, and Peter, 1997;
Sharma et al., 2005b, 2005d; Sharma, Pampapathy, and Kumar, 2005).
FIGURE 4.2 Shoot fl y, Atherigiona soccata damage in resistant (IS 18551) and susceptibe (CSH 1) cultivars
of sorghum.